Making a Cheap Flash Diffuser

By MD photography on 09:42 Canon, DIffuser, DIY, DSLR, Flash, Howto, Nikon, Sony, Tutorial

Hi everybody!
This time i will explain how to build a free and easy Flash Diffuser.
As everyone knows, flashing directly to the subject will cause it to be "whitened" and so, we will have a great loss in details.
That's why we need to bounce the flash light on a reflective surface (white if possible) as discussed in my previous post "Making a cheap Bounce Card"

Actually you stop here and can go buy a Flash Diffuser from eBay or photography shops, or you can read furthemore!

Flash Diffuser for External Flash Unit
Ingredients:

- an opaque can of Liquid Soap/Detergent
- a can of Pringles

1) Cut the Pringles can, eating them meanwhile, in a 5cm to 10cm small piece and insert white paper inside the border of it (pringles inside can have gray reflective surface)

2) Cut the bottom of the liquid soap/detergent can so that some cm of the closed bottom will actually go out from the pringles can in the final flash diffuser.

3) Put it together with some black tape if the diameter doesen't fit perfectly (mine fitted perfectly)

4) That's all! Here you can see the result in taking picture flashing directily to the subject without and with the Flash Diffuser we just made. While without the Flash Diffuser you can see that the subject (pringles can) is overexposed by flash light, with the Flash Diffuser ON, there is no overxposed subject, and details are bettere than without it.

Actually the pringles can should fit almost every external flash unit!

Flash Diffuser for Internal Flash Unit (DSLR)
Ingredients:
- an empty white opaque film can

Just cut a little stripe of the film can just to let your internal flash fit inside it.
Here how it should look like and how it will fit the internal flash unit of your dslr